Transform health care and change the way consumers engage with technology. Sounds like a big challenge, right? Here, at Optum, you have the opportunity to achieve great things while you showcase your passion and technical expertise as a Big Data Developer. You'll be inspired by working alongside some of the most brilliant minds in technology who bring compassion, energy and focus to their work every day on a mission to change health care as we know it. Join us! Come share who you are and start doing your life's best work.(sm) We are currently seeking an experienced Big Data Developer/Data Engineer. As a Big Data Developer/Data Engineer you will be technical leader working on agile projects extracting and enriching data, applying filtering and transformation logic to large data volumes of data and provisioning out that data to other applications. As a Big Data Developer/Data Engineer you will stretch your skills and grow your careers as a primary contributor in designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications consistent with the established specifications and business requirements in order to deliver business value. This is a unique development role where your skills within the Big Data space will be valued and experience with the associated tools will allow you to lead development to success. Primary Responsibilities: Create, Configure, Implement, Optimize, Document, and/or Maintain: Custom Talend/Java jobs to ingest, enrich and distribute data in a MapR Hadoop ecosystem File, source and record level data quality checks Logging and Error Handling Job & workflow scheduling Unix scripts Hive Tables and Views Hadoop-Map R Folder, Processing and Storage ComponentsCompare data across data storage locations: from files, to Hive, to traditional relational databases Work as technical leader on an agile team, including supporting story creation and maintenance, create right-sized technical documentation, maintain rally and support scrum and project meetings and status reporting Leverage existing frameworks and standards, while contributing ideas to or resolving issues with current framework owners - where no framework or pattern exists, create them Work within an Agile environment moving as many deliverables forward and mitigate impact of blocking issues Professionally influence and negotiate with other technical leaders to arrive and implement the most optimum solution considering standards and project constraints Mentor junior and other team members in all related Big Data technologies

Required Qualifications: College degree 3+ years in application development experience 1+ years of Hadoop development experience 1+ years Talend development experience Preferred Qualifications: 1+ years of prior Health Care Industry experience Experience with MapR Experience with Big Data technologies: MapR, Hive, HBase, SQL Experience with Change Data Capture techniques Experience with Unix shell scripting Experience leading/mentoring other developers Experience working with Data warehousing and ETL TechnologyTechnology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm) Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. Job Keywords: Hadoop, Talend, application development, Hartford, CT

Our mission is to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone.- We seek to enhance the performance of the health system and improve the overall health and well-being of the people we serve and their communities. - We work with health care professionals and other key partners to expand access to quality health care so people get the care they need... at an affordable price. - We support the physician/patient relationship and empower people with the information, guidance and tools they need to make personal health choices and decisions.